Author Topic: Obituaries for 2021 (Read 51207 times)

Wingnut · « **Reply #625 on:** September 08, 2021, 12:14:41 am »

Quote from: catfish1957 on September 07, 2021, 11:11:51 pm

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Remembering legendary attorney Walter Umphrey
JEFFERSON COUNTY — Legendary attorney Walter Umphrey, who helped pioneer asbestos litigation and represented the interests of Southeast Texans for more than 50 years, has died. He was 85 years old.

Clayton Thompson Funeral Home in Groves confirms with KFDM/Fox 4 that "Walter Umphrey died today at his home in Beaumont, surrounded by his loving family."

Funeral arrangements are pending with Clayton-Thompson.

Umphrey was born in Southeast Texas but his legal accomplishments and skill, and the work of his law firm, were known across the nation.

His firm was one of five in the state that helped win a landmark lawsuit against the tobacco industry.

https://kfdm.com/news/local/remembering-legendary-attorney-walter-umphrey
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Not exactly a household name nationally, but if you have ever lived in SE Texas or SW Louisana, you should be very familar with this iconic lawyer.
Was never a big fan of tort lawyers, but it was always hard not to respect this guy's work, and what he was able to accomplish.

How can you respect a ticturd who started the whole..."You may be entitled to compensation if you, our a loved, one held a lawn mower up at its base and used it as a hedge clipper and had your fingers cut off

sneakypete · « **Reply #626 on:** September 08, 2021, 12:45:02 am »

Quote from: Wingnut on September 08, 2021, 12:14:41 am

How can you respect a ticturd who started the whole..."You may be entitled to compensation if you, our a loved, one held a lawn mower up at its base and used it as a hedge clipper and had your fingers cut off

@Wingnut

BINGO! He was a vulture that should be floating in a toilet bowl.

Bigun · « **Reply #627 on:** September 08, 2021, 01:03:22 am »

One of the biggest funders of Democrats in Texas. I'll shed not one tear over the passing of Walter Umphrey.

catfish1957 · « **Reply #628 on:** September 08, 2021, 03:15:45 am »

Quote from: Wingnut on September 08, 2021, 12:14:41 am

How can you respect a ticturd who started the whole..."You may be entitled to compensation if you, our a loved, one held a lawn mower up at its base and used it as a hedge clipper and had your fingers cut off

He might be a low life turd, but respect does not always translate to like.

Here is another example, I respect the fact that WJC maybe the most talented politican in our lifetimes. But he is still a lowlife.

Another example..... Patton respected Rommel. He was the enemy but.....

And as a manager at a petrochemical plant, not telling how much he cost me in dividends, and raises due to lawsuits.

I hope you are getting the picture.

Smokin Joe · « **Reply #629 on:** September 08, 2021, 07:10:23 am »

Quote from: Wingnut on September 08, 2021, 12:14:41 am

How can you respect a ticturd who started the whole..."You may be entitled to compensation if you, our a loved, one held a lawn mower up at its base and used it as a hedge clipper and had your fingers cut off

There was more to it than that. People who had sent their kids to college on 5-10 acre tobacco farms' yields now were all signed up to NOT produce the cash crop grown there since colonial days. (Tobacco was accepted as payment for taxes in some of the colonies, and as good as cash.)
You aren't going to make much money off of 5 acres of corn or soybeans.
A way of life, especially where I grew up, died out.

About the only folks there still growing tobacco are the Mennonites, who didn't sign agreements to not grow tobacco, but who are willing to grow what is still a labor intensive cash crop.

Polly Ticks · « **Reply #630 on:** September 10, 2021, 06:10:53 pm »

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Michael Constantine, Windex-loving dad in ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding,’ dies at 94

Michael Constantine, an Emmy-winning character actor who played a wry high school principal on the TV series “Room 222” and starred three decades later as the Windex-obsessed, endearingly overbearing dad in “My Big Fat Greek Wedding,” died Aug. 31 at his home in Reading, Pa. He was 94.

His agent, Julia Buchwald, confirmed the death but did not give a cause.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/michael-constantine-dead/2021/09/09/5729a1a2-1178-11ec-bc8a-8d9a5b534194_story.html

mountaineer · « **Reply #631 on:** September 10, 2021, 09:35:03 pm »

I never saw the Greek Wedding movie, but remembered him from Room 222.

AllThatJazzZ · « **Reply #632 on:** September 10, 2021, 10:57:42 pm »

Quote from: mountaineer on September 10, 2021, 09:35:03 pm

I never saw the Greek Wedding movie, but remembered him from Room 222.

@mountaineer

You must be a geezer like me. I remember that show.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faWZf8jLEOQ

Wingnut · « **Reply #633 on:** September 10, 2021, 11:30:50 pm »

Quote from: mountaineer on September 10, 2021, 09:35:03 pm

I never saw the Greek Wedding movie, but remembered him from Room 222.

Me too.

mountaineer · « **Reply #634 on:** September 10, 2021, 11:40:16 pm »

That was a nice opening sequence and theme song.
Constantine was one of those actors you'd see in guest appearances occasionally (twice in "Law and Order," and many other series). Quite a body of work.

verga · « **Reply #635 on:** September 13, 2021, 06:32:31 pm »

Quote from: Polly Ticks on September 10, 2021, 06:10:53 pm

Loved him in everything he did. RIP sir

mystery-ak · « **Reply #636 on:** September 14, 2021, 06:33:19 pm »

https://twitter.com/DEADLINE/status/1437843997985177600

mountaineer · « **Reply #637 on:** September 14, 2021, 06:35:59 pm »

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Norm Macdonald, whose laconic delivery of sharp and incisive observations made him one of Saturday Night Live‘s most influential and beloved cast members, died today after a nine-year private battle with cancer. He was 61.

Macdonald’s death was announced to Deadline by his management firm Brillstein Entertainment. The comedian’s longtime producing partner and friend Lori Jo Hoekstra, who was with him when died, said Macdonald had been battling cancer for nearly a decade but was determined to keep his health struggles private, away from family, friends and fans.

“He was most proud of his comedy,” Hoekstra said. “He never wanted the diagnosis to affect the way the audience or any of his loved ones saw him. Norm was a pure comic. He once wrote that ‘a joke should catch someone by surprise, it should never pander.’ He certainly never pandered. Norm will be missed terribly.” ...

More at Deadline

dfwgator · « **Reply #638 on:** September 14, 2021, 06:59:17 pm »

Quote from: mystery-ak on September 14, 2021, 06:33:19 pm

https://twitter.com/DEADLINE/status/1437843997985177600

This one hurts a lot.

catfish1957 · « **Reply #639 on:** September 14, 2021, 07:00:02 pm »

Quote from: mystery-ak on September 14, 2021, 06:33:19 pm

//twitter.com/DEADLINE/status/1437843997985177600

Damn..

Sad to hear this. Norm was an SNL alum who escaped the clinches of lefty bias.

My favorite work of his was "Dirty Work". Cult classic that has some of the best deadpan of the '90's.

jmyrlefuller · « **Reply #640 on:** September 14, 2021, 07:18:48 pm »

We know exactly who is to blame for this... you guessed it: Frank Stallone.

corbe · « **Reply #641 on:** September 14, 2021, 08:36:25 pm »

https://youtu.be/6pCH_Ab6SIE

Gefn · « **Reply #642 on:** September 14, 2021, 09:22:24 pm »

Quote from: mountaineer on September 10, 2021, 09:35:03 pm

I never saw the Greek Wedding movie, but remembered him from Room 222.

@mountaineer

Please rent the Greek Wedding movie. You’ll really like it.

I remember him from both. Rest In Peace

mountaineer · « **Reply #643 on:** September 14, 2021, 10:34:58 pm »

https://twitter.com/JerryDunleavy/status/1437902677606817797

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Norm Macdonald
@normmacdonald
Scripture. Faith. Grace. Christ, Glory of God. Smart man says nothing is a miracle. I say everything is.
7:35 PM · Oct 31, 2017